On 17 May 2011 14:35:50, Ben Story wrote: > I am trying to setup a script to take a txt file and use enscript to > create PostScript and then pipe it to an HP Printer directly. > enscript -p- textfile.txt | lpr -Y -P 10.10.10.10%9100 > When I do this, nothing is printed. If I pipe it to less or to a file I > see the PostScript and can then tell lpr to print the PS file. Anyone > have any ideas why the direct pipe is not working?
Back when I used enscript (I mostly use a2ps nowadays), I always used enscript's -P switch to specify the printer. But since you're using lpr's -Y, I'm assuming you don't want to do that. The lpr man page does say that the -Y switch is dangerous ... Cheers, Jon -- Jon Beck, PhD mailto:[email protected] Professor of Computer Science 2162 Violette Hall Truman State University 660.785.7233 Kirksville, MO 63501 http://quartz.truman.edu/
